Welcome to GoatsTeleported.com! If you have found us then most likely you have been playing around with the Task Manager in Google Chrome OS and and wondering just why all those goats are being teleported and where they are being sent.
Why has Google such an interest in goats all of a sudden, after all they are better known for their great search engine, excellent web mail, maps and satellite imagery…. I could go on forever. Up to now Google have not been known for farming goats.
In case you stumbled across this page for any other reason than finding the Google’s built in goat teleportation monitoring system hidden in back of Google Chromium’s process monitoring tool – well – in this case I am surprised you are still here – you must think we have all gone mad. You are probably right. For more information about Google Chrome OS, We suggest to visit the operating systems homepage.
Now. Back to the important stuff – the goats!
Adding the ‘Goats Teleported’ counter to the task list results in seeing the number of creatures that each of the running process has moved about. The rate at which the rate is rising is extraordinary. Literally thousands of the things are whizzing about every single second. We are getting worried that if too many people start to power up Chrome OS powered machines there will be a severe traffic jam.
So what is it all about. After an extensive search of Google’s own search engine, we are confident in saying that even Google themselves don’t seem to be saying (that’s assuming of course that they do indeed know about them). ‘goats.google.com’ remains unreachable at this time.
So we did some detailed analysis. After downloading the source code (yes it is open source) and examining it closely, we have found the answer. Sadly it leads to more questions.
In the code for the Task Manager applet we found:
static const int kGoatsTeleportedColumn = (94024 * kNuthMagicNumber) & kBitMask;
case kGoatsTeleportedColumn: // Goats Teleported. goats_teleported_ += rand();
return FormatNumber(goats_teleported_);
So, for now its just generating random numbers and adding them to the count. So for now, no traffic jams, no international goat shortage, no irate dairy farmers are likely to turn up and dump cow-dung outside Google’s HQ.
For now, the teleported goats are just fake.
But… we suspect that this is just because the version of Google Chrome that is currently available is just a development build. The Chrome Development Team simply haven’t got around to implementing the real goat teleporter yet. When they do, hold on tight – all h*ll will break loose!
Watch this space for more information when we get it.
According to IT Pro, they have been told officially by a spokesman for Mozilla that a release candidate for a mobile version of the Firefox browser ‘would not be long’, stating that it is a matter of just days.
Codenamed ‘Fennec’, the portable version of Firefox will initially support the Nokia N900, but will become available for other models and other platforms in the coming months.
Firefox has recently reached the much sought after crown of the ‘most popular browser’, having overtaken Internet Explorer 7’s position of having the largest market share. (Source: StatCounter)
Hot on the heels of the rumours and speculation about the Google branded Nexus One phone, which Google is reportedly preparing itself to see directly to the end-user early in 2010. Now we have a new round of speculation, about a Google branded Netbook.
TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington refers to multiple sources when he quotes Google as being in contact with one or more netbook hardware manufacturers, with an idea about bringing a Google branded netbook to the market. Apparently it “gave the company a RFP with quite detailed technical specifications and has begun discussions on building it.”
I don’t expect this Netbook (if it exists) will have Windows 7 in mind though. No – I am convinced that Google Chrome OS is firmly (and exclusively) in Google’s thoughts here.
Arrington continues to speculate that the Google Netbook will be centred around an ARM processor rather than current netbook sweetheart- the Intel Atom. He’s even willing to go so far as to place bets using critical body parts of his staff’s anatomy on it.
I just hope that if all this is true, that Google don’t go and alienate everyone else. In my opinion, in order for Chrome OS to gain enough market share to make a difference, they need to be present on every manufacturer’s hardware (both from a technical and a marketing perspective). Chrome OS needs to run just as well on any old (or new) Atom netbook.
Who is Google’s biggest target here? Is it Microsoft? Or maybe it is Apple…
Google are not yet where Apple are – they don’t (yet) have a strong hardware fan base. But maybe that is where they want to go. Imagine GoogleApp Store and gTunes. There’s potentially a lot of money to made there.
Creative ideas and products blog inewidea.com has written about the ultimate bed for space-cadets everywhere, with a space-ship bed that every boy is going to want.
All boys, though they show great difference in hubbies, have a common dream of traveling in space. Yea that sounds like a very difficult dream to achieve, but we probably could help them go closer to their dreams with the bed that is shaped like a spaceship. Cool! Just start your space travel then, boys!
I’m not totally convinced that it looks that comfortable, as in the pictures it doesn’t look completely flat. I’m sure that’s not going to worry the kids though, as the cool factor will far outweigh the comfort factor!
Find more screenshots of the space-ship bed at inewidea.com
If you are like me in thinking that VLC is the only media player we ever need, maybe Swedish student Christofer Persson is the right guy to challenge us to think again with his ‘Kantaris Media Player’.
Why should we think again? Because Persson’s player is based on open-source VLC, so it can do all of the same things and play all of the same media types. It’s skinnable, so it can look better and does even more, like finding subtitles for many videos online and integrating Last.fm.
According to DownloadSquad.com, “Kantaris is an audio/video player that can handle all of the same media formats as VLC and then some. It features an attractive skin, some trippy audio visualizations, and integration with Last.fm and Apple movies trailers.”
For anyone that likes to play little pranks on their friends, enemies and workmates – we recommend to check out the PC Prankster.
By simply connecting this little USB box of tricks into your victim’s PC you can buy yourself hours of fun to sit back, watch and laugh as you see them beginning to get very frustrated…
The PC Prankster takes over your victim’s computer by:
- making random mouse movements
- typing random gibberish words and phrases
- toggling the CAPS Lock on and off
The PC Prankster is highly annoying, but since it will not press the ‘enter’ key, or start saving or closing documents, it should not go too far by causing anyone to lose their work, or do any real damage.
It is however definitely NOT recommended for use in highly sensitive environments, such as “computers that control nuclear reactors, security systems for genetically recreated dinosaur parks and/or zombie experimentation units” etc.
With the arrival of the first code of Chrome OS, also known as Chromium OS in its open source form, the H takes a deeper look at the browser-centric operating system.
When Google announced Chrome OS, many people assumed Google was launching an assault on the desktop – going after Microsoft Windows and were just not saying that was what they were doing. Now Chromium OS, the open source branch of Chrome OS, has arrived The H has taken the source code and built it to see how it feels in practice.
Robert S. Anthony at PCWorld.com’s article highlights a great use for Chrome OS – starting it directly off a USB Stick on a PC that would normally take several minutes to start up.
This would be especially useful if you are in a rush and just need almost instant access to the Internet but don’t have time to wait. With Chrome OSes sub 10 second startup time, this will certainly help.
Robert’s article gives a step by step guide on how to find and download Hexxeh’s build of Chrome OS. This is designed to be installed on a USB Stick so that it can boot and Windows, Linux or even Mac computer.
There’s a step by step guide on how to (hopefully) get it working here.
Beta versions of the Chrome Browser have finally been released for the Mac and Linux platforms. Both are now available for free downnload at the Chrome Browser Homepage.
Speculation at LinuxInsider.com is that Google is trying to get into the minds of users of these platforms in order to familiarise them with the brand – making it easier to later convince them that switching to using some of the companies other offerings are products is not such a massive jump.
According to analysts, Google will get a huge boost in its efforts to convince Microsoft’s corporate customers that the company’s Google Apps suite is a viable alternative to Office.
Chromium OS is not designed as a direct replacement for traditional Operating Systems like Windows, but is only designed to be able to run applications that exist as web based applications that are run from the Internet. Google’s view is that applications don’t need be installed and run locally on a PC, and that data is best kept online in the cloud so that it can be accessed from any device, any time, anywhere.
This is likely to really heat up the ongoing battle between Google and Microsoft to boiling point. Now they are not just fighting over search engine clicks or single applications, but this time about the whole concept and apprach to personal computing.
Why has Google such an interest in goats all of a sudden, after all they are better known for their great search engine, excellent web mail, maps and satellite imagery…. I could go on forever. Up to now Google have not been known for farming goats.
So what is it all about. After an extensive search of Google’s own search engine, we are confident in saying that even Google themselves don’t seem to be saying (that’s assuming of course that they do indeed know about them). ‘goats.google.com’ remains unreachable at this time.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=ee55236a-f6c3-4d42-8ab0-671396f9b5fe)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=c27251bf-509f-4b8a-bedf-ab3fb3930906)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=93bf10a2-ac09-44bc-933b-3e391856d180)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=12e38483-9d83-422d-8626-7dc0e72fc750)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=e597ffa4-fc7c-4af5-9ff9-6b38ade4841c)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=30dcb36d-da5b-4798-a647-d068e527fa92)
Loading ...